- Hey folks, Ben from Snowys here today
with the Darche Nebula 1550 Swag.
It's a heavy duty and roomy touring swag for two people.
Weighs in at around 18.9kg,
it comes with its own heavy duty canvas carry bag,
this is around about 150cm in length
and about 35cm by 35cm in width and height.
The size of the swag, you've got 230cm in length
and you've got about 150cm in width.
Gonna take a walk around the outside part of the swag here,
if you look at the canvas,
this is a 420gsm ripstop polycotton canvas,
the fly on top here is a ripstop synthetic fly,
the poles in the Nebula are anodized 25mm aluminium,
plastic C-clips attaching the tent to the pole frame,
steel components here and at the bottom,
where the pegs go, and at the base of the swag
is a bucket, 600gsm PVC floor.
So if we look at the features on the outside of the tent,
I'll start with this end, at the very base here,
we've got some straps, these are attached to the tent,
they're for packing it up so you
can't lose your pack-up straps,
they're stitched to the bottom here.
Now there's four entrances to the Nebula 1550,
one on each end and one on each side,
it's a symmetrical tent, so no matter how you set it up
you can access it from anywhere.
So what I'll show you on this end,
is the same on the other end.
There's a doorway here, that if we unzip,
reveals a mesh panel underneath
and that then zips open too
so you've got access inside the tent.
So underneath the top flap is the mesh door here,
it's a heavy duty mesh, I don't reckon it's midge proof,
it's not a no-seam mesh but it's certainly heavy duty,
so it's gonna last the distance.
So if we come around to the other side of the tent here,
we've got the same setup only on a wider door,
while I'm at this door I'll show you this door,
you see there are actually large storm flaps and this
features over every zipper on the door on this swag.
There's double flaps really, that cover the zipper here,
so there's gonna have to be some pretty
serious weather for any water to get in there.
I just wanna unzip this front panel here
and show you the awning options
that you've got with the Nebula 1550.
On the corners of this door, there are actually eyelets
which you can use with, if you have the optional
short awning poles, you can take this out
as a shade awning just outside your door.
On top of that, within the included fly sheet,
I've got it rolled up here, but this unrolls
and there are also eyelets and guy ropes
so obviously on this you can create a much larger
weatherproof awning outside the entrance to your swag here.
I'm gonna leave that rolled up today.
We'll roll this one up and show you what's inside.
Before I jump inside this swag,
I just want to mention these vents
that feature only at one end of the swag,
there's one on each side here but they're only at this end.
These open up to reveal a little mesh panel
that allows low level ventilation at one end of the tent
and that can just be held open with the tabs here.
I'm gonna jump inside the swag now,
let's show you how much space is in there.
So sitting inside the Nubula 1550 here,
I've got tonnes of space, even at 186cm, I am,
just sitting to one side, I've still got headroom.
About 102cm at the very peak here in the middle.
Now sitting next to me here is the mat,
this is how it comes when you buy the swag,
it's compressed up, now Darche recommend that you
leave this for about 12 hours unpacked for it
to pump up but when that's fully expanded,
it's a 5cm mat that fills this space in here
so it's nice and comfortable for two people to sleep.
We'll look at the features inside the tent.
Starting at the top we notice that all of these seams
have seam seal tape on it, so it's nice and waterproof.
There is one little lantern hook,
just features at one end up here, plastic loop.
As we come down to the bottom of the tent,
we can see these mesh panels here which are
the vents that we showed you on the outside.
And on the bottom of those, a pocket,
and that features on each side of the tent
at the vent end, there's only two of those.
The one feature I haven't mentioned so far
is probably the best bit of the Nebula 1550 Swag
and that is the 360 degree views you can get
when you open all the doors.
So the door you're looking through now at the moment
is open and this door to my right but I can also open
the swag at this end here and the door behind me
so that I can see the wilderness all around me.
You can pick these up off our website at lowest prices,
free delivery to almost everywhere in Australia
at www.snowys.com.au.
Thanks for watching, see you next time.